Executive Doctorate in Education Leadership (EDEL) and Master in Management major in Development Entrepreneurship (MMDE) Launched on 1-11-11 at 11:00 AM by Bayan Academy and the Development Academy of the Philippines

A Momentous January 11, 2011 at 11:00 AM for

Sealing the Bayan Academy-DAP partnership are Dr. Eduardo A. Morato, Jr. Bayan Academy Chairman and Mr. Carlyzar S. Divinagracia, DAP Chairman of the Board (middle). Witnessing the event are (from left) Dr. Gloria Jumamil-Mercado, Dean, DAP Graduate School of Public and Development Management, DAP President, Mr. Antonio D. Kalaw, Jr. From right is Mr. Philip S. Felipe, Bayan Academy Managing Director and Prof. Levi P. Verora, Director for Area and Industry Development for Entrepreneurship of ABS-CBN Bayan Foundation.

Two innovative, state-of-the-art programs for the government have been designed by Dr. Eduardo A. Morato, Jr., Chairman of Bayan Academy and President of ABS-CBN Bayan Foundation for the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP). These are the Executive Doctorate in Education Leadership (EDEL) and Master in Management major in Development Entrepreneurship (MMDE).

DAP is the country’s premier institution that continuously uplifts and empowers the capabilities of our government leaders. Whilst, Dr. Morato is the Chairman of ACE Center for Entrepreneurship and Management Education Incorporated, Chairman, ABS-CBN Bayan Academy for Social Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Development, former Dean, Asian Institute of Management, and author of 16 books on Entrepreneurship, Strategic Planning and Management, Self Mastery, Creativity and Intuition, among others, and author/lecturer of various publications on Development Management, Social Entrepreneurship and Leadership and Governance.

Bayan Academy concretizes   ABS-CBN Bayan Foundation’s commitment to democratize entrepreneurship and management education as its way of uplifting the lives of the Filipinos and building the nation from below. This is reflected through offering various entrepreneurship, management, leadership and education training programs for development and educational institutions, cooperatives, banks, and micro and small enterprises while also providing livelihood and skills training courses to equip microfinance clients with the necessary skills to put up micro-enterprises or obtain jobs or employment. Bayan Academy is a learning hub and a laboratory for developing new learning methodologies and technologies for teaching entrepreneurship, leadership and management and for developing innovative learning materials that cater to the entrepreneurial poor and even across sectors.

The signing took place at DAP’s boardroom on January 11, 2011 at 11:00 in the morning. The date was intentionally chosen to signify that the programs will become the prime course that would enhance and deliver the needed competencies for the participants.

Dr. Morato, Bayan Academy and DAP inked a partnership in the development, accreditation and implementation of academically-based capability and competency courses that seek to develop entrepreneurial managers in various fields of public, development and social entrepreneurship management while ensuring their competencies in the needs and aspects or managing enterprise development based programs and projects.

DAP Graduate School of Public and Development Management (GSPDM) will be implementing the courses designed by Dr. Morato as it fulfils DAP’s mandate of providing professional graduate education to various stakeholders from the government and private sector through flexible learning opportunities and alternative strategies and tools for managing development, reforming institutions, and addressing complex organizational and human resource concerns.

According to Dr. Morato, EDEL is a post-graduate doctoral degree course designed for owners, heads and top managers of schools, including chairpersons and members of the board, chief executive and chief operating officers, deans, principals, superintendents and course/program directors. It is a practitioner-focused program that provides highly experienced school governors and administrators the necessary academic framework to appreciate and apply state-of-the-art management technologies and leadership interventions to their respective educational institutions. EDEL offers a unique value proposition to its participants: the major applied research undertaking and social laboratory during the entire duration of the course is the educational institution which the participant himself or herself manages or represents.

EDEL’s practicality is very strong as against to the highly academic studies of Doctorate of Philosophy. Every coursework contributes to the strategy paper and five-year development plan of schools. EDEL’s market is the state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the Philippines. The program’s courseworks will have corresponding number of units to make it comparable to CHED’s standards and that of foreign schools.

MMDE on the other hand, is uniquely constructed and is quite different from other offerings by the University of the Philippines, the Asian Institute of Management and other schools. “In fact, if you go through the different topics you might get as excited as I am by its superior conceptual approach, its ennobling topics and its inspirational contextualization”, Dr Morato added. There are three major themes that must be pursued in the course. These are (1) Entrepreneurial Innovations; (2) Societal Transformation and (3) Responsive Development Management. MMDE will carry these three themes over three semesters or eighteen months. Each theme is divided into subject areas that are spread over the three semesters, with each subject area embodying and enhancing its theme through lecture sessions, case study discussions, workshop exercises and subject papers.

MMDE will be DAP’s edge over AIM’s business and social development programs. MMDE challenges the participants, who are targeted to be development managers from government and non-government institutions such as CHED, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health, among others, to become daring and to go out of their comfort zone. It is designed to deviate from the usual, problem-solving type of MBA course.

The signing of partnership was attended by DAP Chairman of the Board, Mr. Carlyzar S. Divinagracia,  DAP President, Mr. Antonio D. Kalaw, Jr. and Dr. Gloria Jumamil-Mercado, Dean, Graduate School of Public and Development Management. Also present were DAP’s faculty members and staff.

From Bayan Academy, Professor Levi P. Verora, Director of Area and Industry Development for Entrepreneurship, Mr. Philip S. Felipe, Bayan Academy Managing Director and Ms. Zaida Villanueva, Institutional Marketing Manager of ABS-CBN Bayan Foundation attended the event. Dr. Juan Kanapi and Dr. Felix Bustos also showed their support in the event as they will serve as faculty members of the courses.

Bayan Academy, with close supervision of Dr. Morato, will be developing the learning materials to be used in the courses. He will likewise serve as EDEL’s first Senior Supervising Fellow (Program Director). He will ensure that the faculty members are of top-calibre in their respective fields. Since he is responsible for the numerous graduate programs launched at Asian Institute of Management (AIM), he mentioned that the success of the programs lie within the credibility of the faculty and the relevance of learning materials.

In the face of the challenges in the 21^st century, DAP must embark on an educational crusade to transform its public service delivery so that it can be made more relevant and responsive to different constituency segments, environmental situations, socio-cultural milieus, economic levels, sectoral concerns and citizenry aspirations.